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do have claws on their wings, penguins have an unfused backbone, and platypuses have bills and lay
eggs. So, those characteristics of the Archaeopteryx prove nothing. Scientists have not found any fossil-
bearing any kind of transitional state between scales and feathers. Archaeopteryx, they have finally
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admitted, was just an extinct BIRD.

Lucy
Mary and Louis Leakey, in 1974, found a skeleton in the Awash
Valley of Ethiopia. The skeleton was supposedly 3.2 million years
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old and was touted as the missing link between apes and man.
She was given the classification as Australopithecus. Originally,
the few bone fragments were touted as a find of the century. But
as time has passed and the bones have been studied carefully,
they appear to be simply the bones of an extinct ape.

Java Man
In 1891, a Dutch physician named Eugene Dubois uncovered the top half of
what he believed was a human skull, three teeth, and a thigh bone while
searching for fossils in Java. The skull was found fifty feet away from the
thigh bone, and there were normal human skulls in the same area. Despite
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these problems, the fossil was called Pithecanthropus and was presented to
the world as a precursor to man, Homo erectus – the missing link between
man and ape. More likely, the skull fragment is from an extinct ape, and the
thigh bone belongs to one of the human skulls. Even evolutionists today
admit that the specimens of Homo erectus are most likely just variations of
normal human beings.

It is interesting that toward the end of his life, Dubois distanced himself from
Pithecanthropus as a transitional form and suggested that it was just a giant gibbon. cviii

Ida
Unbridled hoopla attended the unveiling of a 47-million-year-old primate
skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on May 19,
1983. Ida was hailed as the missing link and the “eighth wonder of the
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world.” Ida turned out to be the fossil of a lemur, lacking only a grooming
claw and a row of fused teeth.

Tiktaalik
Despite substantial differences between the fossilized
fish Tiktaalik (supposed to be 380 million years old) and terrestrial
tetrapods, many evolutionists insist that Tiktaalik was a transitional
form. However, the fleshy fins of Tiktaalik do not attach to the bony
pelvis and so could not support weight for walking. Furthermore,
the bones in the fins of these fossil fish do not resemble digits. It
was just a fish. Pictured to the left, evolutionists suggest that it was the first fish to come out of the
water and walk on land. The huge problem is that it uses gills for breathing. Its legs and lungs had to
evolve simultaneously. No chance!

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